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Q. I was working out at the gym doing a bench press with heavy weights when I felt a pop in the front of my right shoulder. In addition to acute pain, I noticed a deformity of my chest muscle near ...
Pulmonary laceration usually heals quickly after a chest tube is inserted and is usually not associated with major long-term problems. [8] Pulmonary lacerations usually heal within three to five weeks, [12] and lacerations filled with air will commonly heal within one to three weeks but on occasion take longer. [1]
The injury usually becomes larger with time if not repaired. [2] The main goals of surgery are to repair any injuries to the diaphragm and to move any herniated abdominal organs back to their original place. [12] This is done by debriding nonviable tissue and closing the rupture. [3] Most of the time, the injury is repaired during laparotomy. [9]
The area of the chest wall near the contusion may be tender [13] or painful due to associated chest wall injury. Signs and symptoms take time to develop, and as many as half of cases are asymptomatic at the initial presentation. [5] The more severe the injury, the more quickly symptoms become apparent.
A strain is a type of acute injury that occurs to the muscle or tendon. Similar to sprains, it can vary in severity, from a stretching of the muscle or tendon to a complete tear of the tendon from the muscle. Some of the most common places that strains occur are in the foot, back of the leg (hamstring), or back. [2]
Flail chest is usually accompanied by a pulmonary contusion, a bruise of the lung tissue that can interfere with blood oxygenation. [5] Often, it is the contusion, not the flail segment, that is the main cause of respiratory problems in people with both injuries. [6] Surgery to fix the fractures appears to result in better outcomes. [7]
A chest injury, also known as chest trauma, is any form of physical injury to the chest including the ribs, heart and lungs. Chest injuries account for 25% of all deaths from traumatic injury. [ 1 ] Typically chest injuries are caused by blunt mechanisms such as direct, indirect, compression, contusion, deceleration, or blasts [ 2 ] caused by ...
In adjunct with surgery, refractory muscle contracture can also be treated with Botulinum toxins A and B; however, the effectiveness of the toxin is slowly lost over time, and most patients need a single treatment to correct muscle contracture over the first few weeks after surgery. [21] Shortening of the surgically lengthened muscle can re-occur.